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Ardan knelt down, applied his eye to the light, and tried to look out. At first everything was quite dark and gloomy. "I see no Earth!" he exclaimed at last. "Don't you see a fine ribbon of light?" asked Barbican, "right beneath us? A thin, pale, silvery crescent?" "Of course I do. Can that be the Earth?" " Terra Mater herself, friend Ardan. That fine fillet of light, now hardly visible on her eastern border, will disappear altogether as soon as the Moon is full. Then, lying as she will be between the Sun and the Moon, her illuminated face will be turned away from us altogether, and for several days she will be involved in impenetrable darkness." "And that's the Earth!" repeated Ardan, hardly able to believe his eyes, as he continued to gaze on the slight thread of silvery white light